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    Dave Graney and Clare Moore, (strangely)(emotional).
    15 track album (includes two versions of one song.
    All instruments played by Dave Graney and Clare Moore.
    Dave Graney, guitars, bass, autoharp, harmonica, vocals.
    Clare Moore, drums, vibes, keys, percussion, backing vocals.

    Joined by Shane Reilly (Lost Ragas) pedal steel on the opening track, Dave Wray (aka Frank Bennett) on tenor and soprano sax for three songs, Genevieve Fry on harp on one song, Will Hindmarsh (aka Twinkledigitz) and Emily Jarrett on backing vocals on two songs and Catherine McQuade, bass and mixing on another.
    Mastered by beats / hip hop producer and drummer Plutonic Lab who had collaborated with Dave Graney on the homage track GRACE TAME IS PRESIDENT in 2022.

    Dave Graney and Clare Moore have in recent years been swinging between song focused studio albums (like this one) and more band focused rock albums, (like their previous set In A Mistly).
    (strangely)(emotional) is so carefully titled because that’s the age we live in. A person has to be sure and careful of their words. It’s a sensitive area, the world, in 2024. Even though it is also brutal , viral and violent all at once. (The ground we walk upon is contested and just holding together with surface tension). So the words are quarantined from each other, in parentheses so as not to be qualifying or commenting on the other.

    The sounds on the album come from vintage drum machines, electric (six and twelve string) and acoustic (nylon and steel string) guitars, pedal steel, harp, harmonica, electric piano, drums, vibes, marimba, mellotron and tenor and soprano sax.
    The words are rich, playful and very personal. Dave Graney is a proud Creative Creep.
    (strangely)(emotional) comes after a year where Graney and Moore toured the country to joy and acclaim with their 90s band Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes. This album was cooking away in the background all the while.
    It’s a Dave Graney and Clare Moore album. They’ve always done their own thing. This time, it’s (strangely)(emotional)

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lyrics

Poor Covid
poor dumb covid
takin’ the rap for so much
that was bad already
a portal – a hole – that appeared
and everything got chucked in
poor covid
thread thread
the great unravelling
the levelling- the reflection
I loved all of that
the lockdown
the purpose
the intensity
the right
the light on everything
the walks
the nice
poor covid
poor dumb covid
I gave you a chance for a new start
I showed you a new window
I framed stuff for you
I took away the frame
I took your blinkers off
I levelled the field for you
I gave you time
time alone
time together
I gave you questions
questions that needed answers
questions that could be answered
I stopped the world
I stopped the planes and the boats
everybody was on square one
I showed you how things – normal things – didn’t have to be normal
I gave you a breather
I cut you some slack

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from Dave Graney and Clare Moore (strangely​)​(​emotional), released April 12, 2024
Dave Graney, electric guitars, vocals
Clare Moore , synth bass, keys

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From Melbourne, Australia.
Dave Graney and Clare Moore were once in the Moodists, singer and drummer respectively.Then there was the Coral Snakes and and now Dave Graney and the mistLY.
Stu Thomas on bass since 2004 and Stuart Perera on guitar since 1998
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